Salt n Vinegar Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 First item on the James O'Brien prog on LBC might cause a bit of a buzz. The census reveals that for the first time, Roman Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland. O'Brien saying it's possibly the end of the Union. Don't know if I'd go as far as that, but it's certainly constitutionally interesting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 2 years to go. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Big drop in people identifying as British also. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Can't find a recent poll, but around a quarter of Catholics usually say they'd rather stay in the UK, so it's not a done deal without a good number of Protestants coming onside. Brexit might have done that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoid android Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 That would be an ecumenical matter. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Wonder why somebody called James O'Brien would lead with that story. Unionists will actually be quite relieved by these numbers. As usual the demographic shift has failed to live up to all the hype. Best to check out websites like Slugger O'Toole for what's really happening in NI: https://www.sluggerotoole.com/2022/09/21/what-tomorrows-census-results-will-tell-us-and-just-as-importantly-what-it-will-not/ ...The term Protestant is (as has been the case in mainland UK for most of the late sovereign’s reign) is becoming less and less relevant even for religiously observant members of what we used to call the Reformed Faith. As I argued in that review those areas which see the largest number stating they are neither Protestant nor Catholic are almost exclusively in majority Protestant areas (like North Down, 12% against an NI average of 5.6% in 2011 and 2.7% in west Belfast)... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian1 Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 It's just mental that people would vote according to religion though (next you'll be telling us that some chose their football team by that method) How many of those are practising Catholics or Protestants......what does it say about the worlds fastest growing religion - aethism? I really do like James O'Brien and there is very little that he says that I disagree with.....great that he led on this story this morning 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 13 minutes ago, LongTimeLurker said: Wonder why somebody called James O'Brien would lead with that story. The more things change the more they stay the same eh? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 MUSSUS BUNFIELD 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 10 minutes ago, Caledonian1 said: It's just mental that people would vote according to religion though (next you'll be telling us that some chose their football team by that method) How many of those are practising Catholics or Protestants......what does it say about the worlds fastest growing religion - aethism? I really do like James O'Brien and there is very little that he says that I disagree with.....great that he led on this story this morning Presumably you meant atheism, but that isn't a religion. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 11 minutes ago, Caledonian1 said: It's just mental that people would vote according to religion though (next you'll be telling us that some chose their football team by that method) How many of those are practising Catholics or Protestants......what does it say about the worlds fastest growing religion - aethism? I really do like James O'Brien and there is very little that he says that I disagree with.....great that he led on this story this morning It’s not really surprising considering the reasons behind partition You didn’t have to be a practicing catholic to suffer from the discrimination that was rampant in NI 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Glad some people are not overreacting here TUV website Commenting on the 2021 Census results, TUV leader Jim Allister said:- “The fact that the Catholic population in Northern Ireland has flourished presents a telling contrast with the near extinction of the Protestant population in the Republic. “Those who make a read across from the Catholic population to support for Irish unity demonstrate for them just how sectarian that project is. “The rise in the number of people identifying as Catholics has been going on for decades and yet the nationalist vote in this year’s Assembly election is almost identical to that in the first Assembly election in 1998. “The Union is a union with benefits for all, ranging from free medical care to financial wherewithal when it comes to Covid or energy crisis assistance.” 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Has anyone seen an Ulster Unionist on TV? No wonder people don’t want to procreate with them! Ugly gobshites one and all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 20 years ago people like Tim Pat Coogan were convinced the end of NI was just around the corner for the turgid tribal headcount reasons that underpin this thread. This time Roman Catholic numbers went from 45.1% to 45.7%. Hardly the stuff of nightmares for DUP and TUV politicians given the significant numbers of Polish and Portuguese people who arrived pre-Brexit form part of that trend. The long since faded baby boom that led to all the hype back in the day gets balanced out by heavier out migration by people from a Irish Roman Catholic background. There might be a pro-UI majority eventually but intellectual persuasion will have to be involved. Birthrates were supposed to have long since done the job by now but haven't. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Gaz said: MUSSUS BUNFIELD Wid 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Who’s going to burn all the pallets now? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 33 minutes ago, TheScarf said: Who’s going to burn all the pallets now? People from the palatine districts, presumably. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 I wonder if firms delivering to NI charge extra to cover the pallets they won't get back? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 The census also said 29% of respondents consider themselves only "Irish" which doesn't exactly scream border poll time. I've seen quite a lot of people smugly tweeting this who will have a meltdown when people start making similar points about demographics when the English census results are published. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 I Jimmy Nesbitt is getting abused for wanting to have a discussion about the future of Ireland both north and south Unionist in NI apparently don’t have anything to offer other than how much you should hate the other side 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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